CodeCombat with Nick Winter

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“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.”

CodeCombat is a multiplayer live coding strategy game where the players write code to control their characters.

Nick Winter is the CEO and Co-founder of CodeCombat.

Questions

• Where did you get the idea to build CodeCombat?
• How is this different from the gamification at other websites like Code cademy?
• How does multiplayer work?
• What level of programming skill will someone have when they finish playing through CodeCombat?
• How do you build and render the animations on the front-end?
• What games inspired CodeCombat?
• Why did you open-source all of your code?

Links

• CodeCombat
• Kingdom Rush
• Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup
• Nick’s personal page

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